Can Active Labor Market Policy Be Counter-Productive?
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Keywords
active labor market policy; matching models;JEL classification:
- E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
- J6 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DGE-2014-12-19 (Dynamic General Equilibrium)
- NEP-LAB-2014-12-19 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-LMA-2014-12-19 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
- NEP-MAC-2014-12-19 (Macroeconomics)
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